Hi everybody. Wishing you all a great weekend
Any idea how to dispose of blister packs which previously contained pills from the pharmacy/dr?
There is a way of recycling them in the UK but what can I do with them in France that gets them recycled?
Thanks in advance for any information.
If they don’t contain any medication, I simply put them in the general recycling bin.
I take the empty blister pack out of the box and take any information sheet out of the box as well… then the whole lot gets thrown away for recycling… 
Likewise, it all goes in the recycling
I have just double checked some boxes as I thought they were not welcome, but seems it has changed!!yippee
So separate, and into recycling.
Thank you for question as I would have carried on putting them in general waste as per previous instructions.
Perhaps different areas are dealing with things differently.
Empty aluminium blister packs are OK in our local “sac jaune” recycling bins.
In the Emballage bin … Our village has 4 massive bins .on street corners
The Kitchen waste .bin meat, bones . Needs the rubbish in a black sack and use of the commune access card .
Emballage bin .. plastic bottles , cartons , yogurt pots, aluminum food trays and all similar including the blister packs
Papier … Telephone directories and newspapers ..no plastics .
Verre … Including glass yogurt pots
Depends where your kitchen waste goes! Ours goes in our garden compost bin, so no meat or bones (not that we have much in that category).
Hmm… we’re in the wilds and if there is any meat on or off bones.. it gets thrown onto a rough-terrain area (overnight) where the “wild” whatevers can come and enjoy it… (although not poultry bones). Must confess, I’ve rarely any meat to throw away, but I know a couple of neighbours who do… and there’s nothing left the next day so either someone or something is enjoying the snack.. 
There is a general compost bin for all veg/fruit/whatever is compostable apart from garden waste.. that is down to the garden-owner
The Commune even has a process of getting free compost bins to anyone who wants them … But in our case slightly unsuitable .. Anyway it’s more the bloody papers or plastic wrapping not the meat or fish itself .
Ah… in France, all wrappings which have touched food should be recyclable, if I recall correctly. All our food wrappings go into the sack jaune recycling bin
Jesus Dan, you’re into grandmother sucking eggs territory now 
It’s a good question because they are as much aluminium foil as plastic. I end up with a load (and I mean a load) full of them when I do my monthly tablet distribution into daily doses. I put them in the containers bin as they have plastic and alu.
We live in a small hamlet in 46.
There are 2 communal bins , 1 for all recyclables except glass, the other for tied black bin bags for non recyclables. Garden refuse goes to my déchèterie corner of the dry weed patch.
I ignore any recommendations for recycling packaging and put it all into the green bin.
Plastic packaging in a green bin? Surely you are introducing microplastics into the soil?
I am not. There are people working at the recycling centre who are far more qualified than I when it comes to interpreting the rules.
I hope you’re not in a commune that fines people for mis-sorting the recyling.
Would be a warning and a fine around this neck of the woods in Normandie
Is your green bin what for many is the black general rubbish bin? Or the yellow recycling bin? Or indeed a garden waste bin?
It may just be that we don’t understand your point?
And often follow a rule that if a load is too contaminated with the wrong stuff then it all gets shunted off to landfill.
Which is how it should be, as a lot of people do seem to have problems with anything too complicated/following instructions 
Our local rule is that apart from glass ALL packaging goes in the yellow bags which are freely available at the Marie.
There are then pink/clear sacks that are collected & logged, also at the Marie. These are for all other waste i.e. tissues, personal hygiene items & any food you can’t compost. There are yearly limits per household (based on occupancy) over which extra charges will be made.
If any non-compliant bags (not official yellow or pink, or clearly containing incorrect items) are left for collection they get a large red sticker slapped on them & left behind. They eventually disappear but I suspect that is probably a desperate measure by the collection team as the households that get the warning notices tend to look like they don’t give a s**t.
If his green bin is a recycling bin, and not like for some of us a garden waste bin!
